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Forget Best Practice, Think Always Of Learning Next Practice

Paul Hobcraft

Often you hear the request made: “Can you give us a best practice snapshot; we would like to get a sense of where we are”. We all get caught up in best practices, you can’t simply pick up and plug and play, as one organization’s initiative is never the same set of conditions or positioning that others can simply copy.

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Flow Metrics for the Win — Planview Named a Leader in Forrester Wave™ on Value Stream Management

Planview

I was not sure who Forrester was and why they were researching a category called Application Lifecycle Management (ALM). We held a mutual view on how collaboration and tooling are needed to span the end-to-end software lifecycle. Fast forward to 2016. At the time, I was a Ph.D.

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11 female innovation leaders share their definition of innovation

Idea to Value

In 2016, I wrote the article What is innovation? To do it for real requires ideation, of course, but then incubation (going from an idea to something you could get customer feedback from) to acceleration (bringing the new thing to market). If we don’t have clarity on our present state (i.e., What do we mean by innovation?”,

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Relating to the New Innovation Era

Paul Hobcraft

I firmly believe we are on the cusp of a new innovation era. When you step back and recognize all the different advancements we have making in designing tools and frameworks, in understanding innovation, it holds promise. Now we have to weave them together. Of course, much of what we have will still remain.

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Why Are We Making Innovation So Complex?

Paul Hobcraft

It always amazes me how we limit growth by not investing fully in innovation. While most large companies want to become more agile and innovative, many of them fail to turn this wish into a reality. In these failures, we only seem to continue to layer on complexity as a further stop-gap measure. Why is that? Source: [link].

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Mapping the customer journey is the top driver for digital transformation

Paul Hobcraft

A recent Altimeter report “ the 2016 State of Digital Transformation ” discusses these problems, along with many others. So that you are aware, the data and insights in this report are based on the input of more than 500 digital transformation strategists and executives who are leading change within their organizations.

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The backdrop of digital transformation and its consequences

Paul Hobcraft

Firstly I’m sure we can all agree transformation is very hard at the best of times. Beyond making a series of incremental improvements to become cloud-ready, we are supposed to reflect social, mobile and digital technologies. We need to fundamentally transform our processes by opening up and engaging with customers.

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